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Interesting Emacs Links – 2009 Week 13

Nik Conwell posted about the Firefox extension mozex which reminds me I need to set that up. I imagine that this will combine nicely with the emacs client trick mentioned in windows and daemons.

I’ve started a mini-series on Emacs comint as I feel it deserves a lot more love than it gets, considering how incredibly useful it is.

Last year, emacs-fu wrote about extending ansi-term. My own recent post on wrapping ansi-term goes even further, configuring the mouse to auto-copy on highlight and using ido to quickly and easily switch between multiple shell buffers.

Still on the ansi-term topic, sadly it doesn’t work for me in windows. And by default, M-x shell starts a DOS prompt. martinez has a fix for this in NTEmacs although the following works a little better for me in EmacsW32 1.58.

I can’t think of a time I would like to keep trailing whitespace. However, if you need it, flameyes has a solution to selectively remove it or keep it under different directories subtrees. This nicely demonstrates directory local variables (which have been mentioned by previous commenters on this blog).